If we keep up our current energy policies for long enough, we can also get to the point where our thermal (fossil fuel) power plants are too old to be…
Germany’s Nuclear Confession Is a Crack in Net Zero Pretense
Merz’s nuclear confession suggests that the political class cannot keep dodging reality forever.
Microsoft Pauses Its Carbon Indulgence Spending. The Usual Suspects Are Upset.
Microsoft, by every available accounting, was the carbon removal market. As of April 13, per CDR.fyi via ESG Dive, Microsoft accounted for 78.5% of all disclosed durable carbon removal contracts,…
Endangered Species federal spending is over one billion per year
The Federal Expenditure Reports need to be restored and made publicly available in compliance with the Endangered Species Act. Congress needs to look closely at the allocation of federal funding…
Scorecard: How Well Does NOAA’s Hurricane Outlook Actually Perform? 26 Years of Forecasts vs. Reality
Year-by-year verdict — did actual named storms and hurricanes fall within NOAA’s forecast range?
COPE: The Countervailing Obliquity–Precession Effect
The first key fact is that the Earth’s globally averaged annual insolation changes very little over epochal timescales.
Study posits how carbon dioxide cools the upper atmosphere, and warms earth below
Researchers have supposedly solved a long-standing atmospheric puzzle: How rising carbon dioxide cools the stratosphere even as it warms Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere.
Buffalo without lake-effect snow? Ancient iceberg scratches reveal a reverse snowbelt
The west-moving plowmarks span from about 12,000 to 17,000 years ago — a period of roughly five millennia.
The Bitter Taste of Climate Change–Christian Aid
There is no evidence provided to back up the assertion that tea is becoming more bitter, such as market feedback. Instead all we get are assertions.
The California refinery crisis is a national security risk for America
The supply chain of fuels and products refined from raw crude oil will face severe imbalances, most likely leading to higher costs and shortages for future generations.
Troubles at NuScale Power, Fermi America
Energy hyperbole and the madness of crowds are evident with both NuScale Power and Fermi America. Bubbles burst.
“Masculine Behavior Bad for the Planet,” Says Phys.org. We Read the Paper.
It converts substantive disagreement with the consensus framing into a personality defect, a gender pathology, specifically.
3.. 2.. 1.. Claim: Climate Change will Cause More Hantavirus
Just one problem – Ushuaia, the source of the MV Hondius cruise ship outbreak, has a comparable climate to Prince Rupert in British Columbia.
Ethanol: Not the Energy Transition We’re Looking For
Fuel should be fuel and food should be food. Surely Congress can find a better way to genuinely promote U.S. energy security and boost rural economies without imposing the highly…
Renewables Obligation Subsidies Top £100 Billion
There was never any democratic mandate for any of this. At no stage were the public consulted, never mind given the opportunity to vote on renewable energy policy, Ed Miliband’s…
New Paleo Research: Modern ‘Climate Change’ Has Had No Apparent Impact On Precipitation Patterns
Three new tree ring reconstructions (spanning 1320-2021, 1720-2014, and 1657-2020 CE) document the dominance of natural variability in the paleoclimate record.
Trump Administration Gets Strategic With Offshore Wind
…if these deals are structured as settlements of claims, they are likely to be much more insulated from judicial interference than mere administrative orders…
Three Months In: EPA’s Endangerment Finding Repeal Has Quietly Become a Legal Fight, not a Scientific One
Charles Rotter On February 12, the Trump EPA the rescission of the 2009 endangerment finding, the administrative determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare under the Clean Air…
Right, Washington Post, Banning Hamburger Ads Won’t Stop Climate Change
They want to push what farmers remain to go all-organic, which ironically means they will need more land to produce anywhere near the same output because yields will fall, resulting…